The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-21


Memory.
GEORGIA.
The fourth car for the Brunswick street
ear line has arrived.
Charlton Superior Court convened at
Traders Hill this week
Destructive forest fires have been raging
in Oconee and Madison counties.
The Walker place, on the Air-L Line rail
road has been selected as the site for the
Atlanta Driving Park. Work is to be COM
menced at once for the fall exhibition.
There is talk of organizing a land and i'm
grovement company in Athens, which will
not only look to the building up of the city,
but also to the establishment Of manufacto-
rieS in and around Athens.
Tattnall Superior Court adjourned Thurs
day night. There was a good attendance
and much business was transacted Judge
Hines, who was on the bench for the first
time, made very favorable impression on
the people.
At Albany Tuesday Tom Preston, who
has been engaged switchman at the Cen
trail railroad yard for some time past suf-
fered a serious accident. While coupling
cars his foot was caught under a car wheel
and was so badly crushed as to necessitate
Its amputation.
Collector Crenshaw received n telegram
Tuesday from J. L. and II. Worley, of Gilmer
county, stating that their extensive dis
tillery was totally destroyed by fire Tuesday
morning shortly before daybreak How the
fire originated they have not found out but
their impression is that it was the work of
an incendiary.
At Augusta Tuesday another horrible ac-
cident occurred bv which another machin-
list was killed. While party of workmen
were engaged in putting in shafting in the
new Dartmouth factory one Of the shafts
fell upon the head of man named Achord,
crushing his skull. He only lived a short
while after the accident.
J. w. Johnston, the superintendent of the
dye department of the Eagle and Phenix
mills at Columbus, suffered a very painful
accident Sunday. He was chasing some
boys away from line of yarns in the mill
yard, which was drying in the sun, when he
stepped on a rock and wrenched his foot,
breaking his leg Immediately above the
ankle.
j. G. Zachry, of Washington CITY, made
an argument before Gov Gordon Tuesday
in favor of the pardoning of E. H. Sim
mons, a Seven-year man sent up two years
ago from Richmond county. Simmons and
George Watson were convicted of robbing
the National Bank of Augusta on March %,
1884, of $4,000, and each received a seven
year sentence.
At Macon Tuesday the carriage and har-
v
street, was closed by Sheriff Westcott on
foreclosure of mortgage by |. L. Harris,
trustee for Mrs. ]. L. Harris, represented by
Willingham & Patterson attorneys for the
plaintiff. Slow sales and dullness of bust
ness is the cause. The mortgage is between
$1,000 and $1,000.
LAWYER Sidney Jones was cross-uuestion-
ing a colOred female witness in the Superior
Court at Albany, Monday, and after the
witness had stood his questions until she be-
came FESTIVE under the strain, she conVulsod
the court room for minute by addressing
the inquisitive lawyer as follows: Look "a
heah white man, you needn't keep on akin
me so many questions over an over bout de
same thing; you amt gwine to catch me
in no lie
The South Georgia Conference of the
Colored NJ E. Church in America will con
vene in the Colored Academy in Albany
on Friday, May 6, Bishop Lane, of Louis
vile, presiding, The church, of which this
conference is a branch. was organized by
Bishop Pierce in 1870, and differs from the
white Methodist Episcopal Church only in
name. It was organized by the white
church in 1870, at which time Bishop Lane
was ordained.
Near Macon last Saturday Capt French
Hardeman lost fine registered Jersey COW,
Hattie Warren after working hard To
save her life. On examining her stomach
lie hpun0 a quantity OF Sa1lQ ana nails IN q
& compact mass in the lower stomach. She
bad evidently taken these articles in with
Der food, and the accumulation could not
Z be broken up, consequently she died. The
nails looked new and bright, probably from
being ground by the sand.
# An enterprising detective agency in At
lanta have recently been sending out a
& large number of circulars to boys and young
men throughout this section, wherein they
fer for. HE small fee of a OlalFa the
cipient full fedged member Of the United
States Detective agency, with full powers
to run down and capture the deep-dyed
criminals of the country. Many verdant
youths who imagine that they possess all the
elements necessary for the makeup of a
veritabe Pinkerton will doubtless bite the
bait thus offered
Since spring began in earnest last week
betokening the coming of summer, the fact
IS developed that the fruit is not all killed
in Monroe county, as was so universally de
clared after the last cold snap. An investi-
cation shows that many peach trees and
some plum trees have considerable fruit
still remaining on them, while most all OF
the trees have some. Whether the fruit re
naming on the trees was so injured by tbs
cold as to prevent its being developed into
good, luscious fruit remains for the future
to decide.
About a dozen gentlemen went from Co
lumbus up TO Shiloh, on the Georgia Mid
land, Monday, 10 attend the sale of lots a.
the new town. Others would have gone, but
we're prevented by the rain. Quite crowd
from the surrounding country was present
Twenty-Five lots were sold for prices ranging
from $50 TO SIG, the latter price being OBJ
tanned for desirable business lot. Shiloh
is situated in the midst of a splendid farm
ing section, and will no doubt become quite
flourishing little town. A few Of the lots
sold were bought by Columbus gentlemen
Darien Gazette, April IS: Messrs. jaime.
K. Clarke q Co. of Darien, cleared ON yester
day, April 10 from this port, the British
steamship Cornerstone, Capt. g. w. Hun.
ter, for Liverpool. Eng, with cargo of
3,097 logs of sawn pitch timber, measuring
1861 ,436 superficial feet, valued at $4,000;
1,S0S pieces of pitch pine deals, measuring
94.453 superficial feet, valued at 81 $50; and
200 barrels of rosin, weighing 81, 5S5 pounds
valued at $500. This is the largest cargo OF
timber that has ever been shipped from a
Southern port. This puts Darien at the
head of the list as the shipping port of the
South Atlantic coast.
Athens Banner Waterman. The Atlanta
people are now asking strangers why is il
that the people Of the other Georgia cities
feel SO unllindly toward the capital city Of
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